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New single: "Ladies of Montreal"
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Canada Reads
Dave's 1998 book - his first - called On a Cold Road, was recently nominated as one of the five books to be debated for Canada's cross-country literary contest, Canada Reads. Part travelogue, part tour-diary, the book was defended on national radio by supermodel Stacey MacKenzie. A new edition was printed to honour the nomination, featuring an endorsement from Neil Peart of Rush.
Click here for CBC's coverage of On a Cold Road on Canada Reads.
30 songs in 30 days to save Lake Ontario
This is a missive direct from Dave in support of Waterkeepers.
The Swim Drink Fish Music Club is an online music and audio experience
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Reading and writing
NEW Dave launches 10th book
Is Stephen Harper reading Dave Bidini?
On December 7, 2009, Martel sent Harper his 70th gift, Dave's Tropic of Hockey. Has Harper read it? Who knows? His office has sent only five responses to the 72 offerings made by Martel, not one from the PM himself.
This is what Martel says about Tropic.
"Nothing loved can be reduced to mere entertainment, to mere anything. So just as I have an exalted view of literature and bristle at the notion of art as mere entertainment and cannot fathom anyone having a good, thinking life that doesn't include reading, so Dave Bidini exalts, bristles and cannot fathom on the subject of hockey. Each one of us cares, defends and justifies what he or she loves. Put all those passions together, and you have a society, a culture, a nation. A last word, then, on Tropic of Hockey: it's the most Canadian book I've sent you."
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To learn more about Tropic of Hockey, click here.
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Research and problem solving methodologies, object-oriented analysis and design, data management, Web service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Web middleware and server technologies, software development, and data and web security.
Dr. Chang has over thirty-four years of combined academic and industrial experiences. For about twenty years, Dr. Chang has designed, developed, and consulted in leading edge information system technologies. His fields of interests are in research and problem solving methodologies, object-oriented analysis and design, database modeling (for both object oriented and relational approaches), data warehousing, data mining, Web service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, web middleware and server technologies, software development, and data and web security.
Dr. Chang serves as an Associate Professor of the College of Management since 2001. Prior to his current position, he had been an an adjunct professor of the College of Management since 1998.
Dr. Chang graduated from University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the division of Institute of Technology. The title of his dissertation is "An Investigation of the Breakdown of Solutions of Models of Nonlinear Vibrating String." One of the research areas of his dissertation is about analysis and modeling of the physics problem of nonlinear waves, including vibrating strings, using advanced methods in mathematics. Many real world problems such as some in Physics, Economics, or Transportation are nonlinear in nature. For example, nonlinear waves may model transportation problems such as traffic flows.
Dr. Chang also received a M.S. degree in Computer Information Science from Oakland University, an M.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Teaching Experience
Dr. Chang has taught at University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario, Iowa State University, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha for a number of years. He has published papers in the areas of information systems, computer sciences and mathematics in some prestigious technical journals or conference proceedings. Dr. Chang was elected as a graduate faculty fellow of the University of Nebraska System in 1982 with the privilege of supervising doctoral students, and has participated in various committee activities. At LTU, he has designed and/or taught over fourteen graduate level courses in information systems at the Southfield campus, and education centers in Vancouver, Toronto and Taipei.
Professional Experience
Dr. Chang switched to the IT industry and worked for about 20 years with major telecommunication companies, computer manufacturing companies, and IT consulting companies including AT&T, IBM, and Accenture. He served in senior roles as analyst, developer, architect, and manager. Dr. Chang also founded an IT consulting company and serves as its president. Past clients of this company include AT&T, HP, Ernest & Young, DTE Energy, and Borders Groups Inc. His work has covered a wide spectrum of IT ranging from operating systems and database internals (at IBM), to network and telecommunication (at AT&T), to database and Web-based business enterprise applications (at Accenture and Borders Groups). Dr. Chang has published or presented several dozen technical articles and industrial white papers.
Dr. Chang was invited by Prentice Hall to serve as a book reviewer in 2002, and has completed a review of the manuscript of the 2nd edition of "Object-Oriented Modeling and Design with UML" by James Rumbaugh and Michael Blaha. The first edition of this text was a best seller for technology books with over 400,000 copies sold worldwide. Dr. Chang was also invited by Prentice Hall to serve as a book reviewer in 2007 and 2008, and has completed a review of the manuscript of "SOA: Principles of Service Design" and the manuscript of "SOA Design Patterns" by Thomas Erl, author of several best sellers in SOA and Web services published by Prentice Hall. He was also invited by the publisher: CRC Press in 2009 and completed the review of the manuscript of "Patterns of Data Modeling" by Michael Blaha.
Dr. Chang refereed papers for the journal of IEEE Software and the SOA magazine. He also refereed papers for various professional conferences. He served as a reviewer for a NSF (National Science Foundation) grant proposal. Dr. Chang received the best paper award in Research Methodology from a 5-member international committee for the VIPSI-2007 Tokyo Conference.
Dr. Chang was issued three software patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the area of information technology. The first is about user-driven menu generation over computer systems or Web-based systems with applications in generating Web elements in user interface. The second is about dynamic generation of target files from template files over computer systems with applications in generating markup language documents, such as XML (Extensive Markup Language), and Web services. The third is about dynamically filling changeable fields of template files with a variety of sources, filling multiple template segments over multiple stations in an assembly-line like setting, and using template to provide a website layout. Dr. Chang currently has two patent applications under examination by USPTO.
Professional Memberships
Prior to Lawrence Technological University, Dr. Chang published or presented over 75 journal and conference papers, IT industry white papers, and management or technical articles.
Publications and Presentations while at LTU
DMIT Doctoral Dissertations Supervised as Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Selected Publications and Presentations Prior to LTU

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Amanda Knox, accompanied by her lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova, arrives for an appeal hearing at the Perugia court, central Italy, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. A tearful Amanda Knox has told an appeals court in Italy that accusations that she killed her British roommate are unfair and groundless. Knox fought back tears as she addressed the court Monday, minutes before the jury went into deliberations to decide whether to uphold her murder conviction. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Charlie your the best You really care about others
Charlie Sheen was born on September 3, 1965 in New York. He is the youngest song of actor Martin Sheen. Charlie is a two-time Golden Globe winner (for ABC's Spin City, 1996). Charlie has starred in the CBS hit Two and a Half Men for 8 seasons. He has two children with ex-wife Denise Richards.
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Slipping into adolescence, are you? Yeah, I saw your SO EXCITED ABOUT BAND HERO! posts. But some songs on that are fun to play and Hang Me Up To Dry by Cold War Kids is my faroivte song. A Million Ways by OK Go is good too.
Thanks for sarhnig. What a pleasure to read!
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November 2012
"The Dutch are prepared for the one-in-a-thousand-years storm; New York wasn't even prepared for a one-in-a-hundred-years storm."—How Can New York Prepare For The Next Hurricane Sandy?
"We act as if somehow we shouldn't be afraid when that's like saying "be happy all the time" or "be brave all the time". Not real. And not social."— Nilofer Merchant
October 2012
"You've seen the vile and vehement twisting of this story. You can probably imagine how I feel. I was the faith and trust and hopes and dreams of a village whose environment is dying, whose culture is dying because the salmon are dying. And now the world is saying they were duped."—
"An interesting way to look at the difference between pivot, reorganization, and panic is to think about this in context of your own career or even your education. For example, you might be in school and you realize that you don't like your major. You might pivot into something else, restructure by going to a different school. Or even panic as you realize that you've spend too long on something that you're not passionate about (e.g., failing slow). The same goes with careers. Pivot to another role, restructure by going back to school, or a panic."— DJ Patil
What is the difference between a pivot, a reorganization, and a panic? How do you know which changes are worth reacting to? Join Do Something CEO Nancy Lublin, Greylock data scientist DJ Patil, and strategist Kate Gardiner in conversation as the first installment of Fast Company's Generation Flux Branch salons kicks off.


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An Amazon of words flowed from Charles Darwin's pen. His books covered the gamut from barnacles to orchids, from geology to domestication. At the same time, he filled notebooks with his ruminations and scribbled thousands of letters packed with observations and speculations on nature. Yet Darwin dedicated only a few words of his great verbal flood to one of the biggest questions in all of biology: how life began.
The only words he published in a book appeared near the end of On the Origin of Species: "Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed," Darwin wrote.
The Origin of Life - Abiogenesis
Darwin believed that life likely emerged spontaneously from the chemicals it is made of today, such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. But he did not publish these musings. The English naturalist had built his argument for evolution, in large part, on the processes he could observe around him. He did not think it would be possible to see life originating now because the life that's already here would prevent it from emerging.
In 1871, he outlined the problem in a letter to his friend, botanist Joseph Hooker: "But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed."
Scientists today who study the origin of life do not share Darwin's pessimism about our ability to reconstruct those early moments. "Now is a good time to be doing this research, because the prospects for success are greater than they have ever been," says John Sutherland, a chemist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He and others are addressing each of the steps involved in the transition to life: where the raw materials came from, how complex organic molecules such as RNA formed, and how the first cells arose. In doing so, they are inching their way toward making life from scratch. "When I was in graduate school, people thought investigating the origin of life was something old scientists did at the end of their career, when they could sit in an armchair and speculate," says Henderson James Cleaves of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. "Now making an artificial cell doesn't sound like science fiction any more. It's a reasonable pursuit."
Raw ingredients
Life--or at least life as we know it--appears to have emerged on Earth only once. Just about all organisms use double-stranded DNA to encode genetic information, for example. They copy their genes into RNA and then translate RNA into proteins. The genetic code they use to translate DNA into proteins is identical, whether they are emus or bread mold. The simplest explanation for this shared biology is that all living things inherited it from a common ancestor--namely, DNA-based microbes that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago. That common ancestor was already fairly complex, and many scientists have wondered how it might have evolved from a simpler predecessor. Some now argue that membrane-bound cells with only RNA inside predated both DNA and proteins. Later, RNA-based life may have evolved the ability to assemble amino acids into proteins. It's a small step, biochemically, for DNA to evolve from RNA.


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Lockout Update Day 86: there is still a lockout.
Here is a column that sums up what I've been trying to say for weeks. Nothing against the players at all, but the situation is what it is. I like what the columnist uses as an example, in terms of how the owners have the leverage with hockey, whereas the owners of GM or Ford has very little leverage. And the owners of other sports do not have the same leverage as they do in hockey, because ESPN actually cares about the other sports. And I also liked his interview with a labor expert, notably:
What would you do now?
"If I was an owner, I'd hold pat."
And if you were working for the PA?
"Try to negotiate on some small issues, to save face. Take what you can and live to fight another day."
A lot of people emphasize how Gary Bettman has "met his match" with Donald Fehr, who has the experience and intelligence to make a lot of leeway. They say this as if Bob Goodenow was nothing. But let's not forget - if the players remained united behind Goodenow, there would have been a second season missed… but the players would have succeeded in avoiding a salary cap. It wasn't Goodenow's lack of skills or intellect that proved his downfall, it was lack of unity behind him.
Wojtek Wolski finished off his tenure in Poland, tallying two assists in five games. Not a lot of action, consider he was there for a few weeks. He played the last two games with a groin injury.
For those of you who own San Jose Sharks, here is a nice rundown of what all the players have been doing so far this season. Includes Ryane Clowe, Logan Couture, TJ Galiardi, Martin Havlat (wife recently had a baby) and Patrick Marleau among many others.
In case you missed this last week - Ryan O'Reilly signed a KHL contract. Big deal, right? Actually it is - the contract is for two years and he has no current NHL deal in place. Fortunately he has an out clause, but this will definitely be leverage when negotiating his NHL deal. Look at the wording of Metallurg's statement:
It has been agreed by mutual consent that if Ryan is offered a contract on more lucrative terms in the National Hockey League, Metallurg will not interfere in that contract being concluded.
This implies, to me anyway, that the Avalanche would need to offer "more lucrative terms". If they don't, then he can't get out of his KHL contract.
Colin McDonald was named Bridgeport's team captain late last week and he responded with a four-point game Sunday. He has nine in his last nine games. He's 28 and should be written off. Or…should he? Keep in mind, this is a team that gave Matt Moulson and PA Parenteau a real shot. McDonald had 42 goals in 2010-11 with Oklahoma City. With the quality of prospects on the way for the Islanders, the odds are pretty slim. Infinitesimal even. But in the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas:
Speaking of Islanders prospects, Nino Niederreiter picked up two more points Sunday. He has 24 in 23 on the campaign now.
Ryan Ellis has four points in eight games this season for the Admirals. He is still getting his timing back after being sidelined for so long with a broken wrist.
KHL Players of the Month for November:
Forward - Artem Anisimov (12 points, plus-9, nine games)
Defenseman - Victor Hedman (10 points, plus-10, nine games)
Rookie - Viktor Antipin (seven points, plus-1, nine games)
Hey, Jon Sim is back! A tryout deal with the AHL's Rampage.
In his ramblings, Jeff Angus has been giving you excerpts on the goalie profiles we have in the Fantasy Goalie Guide, but other elements of the guide that should be noted are:
- A political overview of every player. Nearly a full page for each team is dedicated to the entire system of goalies and how easy their path is (or difficult) to the No.1 NHL job based on organizational hopes and expectations. Every bit as key as the talent itself.
- A whole bunch of lists. You love rankings. We got 'em.
Mikhail Grabovski has 20 points in 24 KHL contests so far. Sergei Kostitsyn - an astonishing 27 in 21, which is an even better pace than Ilya Kovalchuk (32 in 26).
Tyler Myers injured his ankle in action in Austria, but is expected to only be sidelined a week.
There is no shortage of fans trying to gather support for a boycott of sorts. For a way to punish the two idiot parties in this dispute. One way is to pressure the sponsors. It's hard to boycott the sponsors completely, but if hockey fans were to dial down their business even a little, it will impact the bottom line. The sponsors will see it, if thousands spend even 10% less on these guys. Go to Burger King instead of McDonalds (US only) sometimes. Use your MasterCard or Amex instead of your Visa (Canada only) sometimes. Skip Tim Hortons once in awhile and grab an inferior cup of coffee somewhere else. Coke instead of Pepsi, anywhere else instead of Canadian Tire, etc. You can't give these giants up completely. Not all of them. That's a lot to ask and would take a lot of discipline. But if fans dialed it back a little, these sponsors will notice. And then they'll twist the screws they already have on the NHL even harder. Then perhaps that deal that the league would have considered taking but then decided against it…perhaps they take that deal instead. Here is a list of sponsors from last season.
This is another good one that is gathering steam, thanks to Bob MacKenzie's Twitter push yesterday. Like this on Facebook, see the video for "the pledge":
Between the two initiatives above, if I get even 500 of you to try each, then it will be noticed. But if 500 of you try each - and then get 500 friends to do the same (who get 500 more)…then it makes a splash.
donpaulo said:
The owners have to protect the costs from themselves after all it is the teams that offer up the contracts. The players and agents certainly ask for more but its the teams that pay for it.
So this is essentially owner versus owners with cost certainty as the main issue. The players simply are a cog in the bigger wheels of the industry. They will pass through the system while the corporations, stadiums and board meetings extend out to infinity. I don't blame the players for holding out for more, most likely a majority of people reading this site would do the exact same thing. They will get it eventually too, they always do as the fans pay for talent in the uniform not the brand on it. If the talent is lacking the fans in the USA don't attend the games.
Contracts will be subject to end runs by creative executives looking to sign players that will bring championships that boost overall team value. There are a lot of creative people out there negotiating contracts that will find a way around the system. They always do. Look no farther than the owners who will try and break their own rules to get ahead. They have to protect themselves against ... themselves.
The sad part from where I sit is that the league has done immeasurable harm to the NHL brand. Losing a national TV deal and going with versus is no way to build brand value. Can you imagine the next time the NHL sits down with a major tv company ? yes thats right they are an unreliable 4th rate sport in the USA behind motor racing. They are harming their own long term value by holding out for short term cost certainty and then locking out the players again. Say by 2018 ?
Sorry to be so harsh but the safest thing for the average fan was to simply write off the entire season and hope to be surprised before Springtime.
I for one do not miss the NHL as I very much enjoy sim hockey. While it ain't the NHL its a pretty damn good substitute.
I feel for guys like Dobber and the other media folk who have to cover this circus.
A nice benefit is that when I have wanted to watch hockey this "gringo" can tune in and see the OHL or WHL and its great hockey. I never watched REAL Canadian hockey before and I love it.
flame away boys
shingy said:
Here's the pledge..and it's fairly kind.
If the league gets going for a second half, they can go f' themselves.
If the second half (entire season) gets junked but the first half of next season is go...so what, wait til the second half.
Basically, I think it's reasonable to give up one half of a season whenever it gets going. I'll still do my pool (free), still come to Dobber's site (the best one I've found yet) and get my fantasy guides etc.
No tv, just stream etc..no merchandize etc..
"No soup for you, come back, one year".....
Pengwin7 said:
The whole "monopoly" of hockey in North America has always made this fight advantage-owners. It doesn't help that the upper 25% of players can just jump overseas for a little Euro-vacation and still make a good buck. I feel terrible for the lower-tier NHLers that are losing a $600k or $1m or $2m salary and have no place to play this year.
Brutal... another day... ho hum...


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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, by Henry Jenkins. He is a media scholar who examines the intersection of new technologies with media, fan cultures, participatory cultures, and collective intelligence.
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood.
Swords from the West, by Harold Lamb. A collection of stories featuring Crusaders from a talented and underappreciated adventure writer of the 1920s.
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner.
The Not So Big Life, by Sarah Susanka. A professional architect describes ways to approach a remodeling of your life. It offers an answer to the question: "How did I get so busy and what can I do about it?"
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Hi Terry,
I'm looking for an articulating shower arm for a disabled vet who is a double (leg) amputee.
I'd like the articulating shower arm to be mounted on the rear wall of the shower and stand off the wall when extended so that it sprays on his head and body instead of toward the room. The shower space will be 30" wide, so I would need about a 15" extension.
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Why wouldn't a rigid 15" long shower arm with a 90 degree down turn work without "articulation"? There are many of these made, in various lenghts, for use with "rainfall" shower heads.
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Thanks for the thought.
I've already considered these.
They won't work because the arm needs to fold out of the way of other shower users in the family who would be standing.
I had been considering a handheld mounted on the right end with an additional mount on the back wall for the amputee, who would be seated on a bench on the left end.
The more I thought about this, the more I realized the long hose will make the handheld quite "droppable". Then how does the amputee retrieve it?
The hose would pull it toward the right side of the shower floor, dangerously out of his reach.
So I started thinking about a separate showerhead on the back wall.
Problem there is that it would point toward the curtained opening when mounted. Guaranteed flood.
Thence the articulated idea.
I found a few, but none long enough to get out in front of him and none with a handheld either (though that would not be absolutely necessary if I can come up with the articulating arm that positions the head where he needs it).
I may be looking for something that is just too specialized to have a market.
Does anyone do custom parts like this?
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Beautiful! I enjoy seeing nature as itself - even the ice! Thanks for sharing with us!
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Conference Featured Events
Recent additions to the program include talks on aspects of African-American and Jewish religious experiences in New York. Details of talks by historians Clarence Taylor and Howard Rock as well as Robert Orsi,below. The complete conference program, available through the link above, includes more than 25 panels and featured events will examine a wide array of topics on New York State history, including many responding to the conference theme, Religion in New York, exploring how religion, religious practice, and expressions of spirituality infuse the history of New York State in myriad ways.
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Details of conference featured events below.
The Gods of Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York, 1800 to 1950
7:30 PM Thursday, November 14, 2013
New York City is generally thought of as the very epitome of American modernity and so it was—but it was also a rich landscape of religious practice, innovation, and conflict. Virtually every major development in American religious history had, if not its origins in New York, then its most public and extravagant expression. Religion did not just happen in New York City; it happened through the city, in the media of its streets, shadows, and stoops, and in exchanges among people of all the world's religions. New York has never been a secular city—or perhaps the religious history of New York demands a rethinking of what "secular" means. This lecture invites a rethinking of American urbanism as a profoundly religious reality. Sponsored by UAlbany's Department of History, the NYS Archives Partnership Trust, and the NYS Writers Institute with support from the New York State HIstorical Association and The Farmer's Museum. Professor Orsi's talk, made possible with the support of The New York State Council for the Humanities, is free and open to the public.
Robert Orsi is Professor of Religion and the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University. His wide ranging writings and focus on social and cultural aspects of religion. Called "the reigning scholar of American Catholicism" by Publishers Weekly, Orsi is author of the landmark study, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 ( 25th Anniversary edition 2010), Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton, 2004) and numerous articles and book chapters. Recent works include The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies (2012) and Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History (Cornell University Press, 2012). Professor Orsi is currently at work on a collection of theoretical and methodological essays, tentatively titled Abundant History, and on a social and cultural history of 20th-century Catholic childhoods in the United States, to be published by Harvard University Press.
Northern African-American Religious Communities and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 20th Century
Lunch Keynote -Noon Friday, November 15th
While much has been written about the southern civil rights movement, lesser known is the pivotal role that religious figures played in civil rights campaigns in New York City and elsewhere in the North. Although left out of popular narratives of civil rights and Black Power, these ministerial figures and lay people were crucial in the fight to end racial repression and for equality.
Professor Taylor's research interests include modern African-American history, the civil rights and black power movements, and African-American religions. Recent work includes "Racial Discrimination and the Radical Politics of New York Clergyman, Milton A. Galamison," in "From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights" (SUNY Press 2013). His works include "The Black Churches of Brooklyn from the 19th Century to the Civil Rights Era" and "Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century" (Routledge, 2002). He is also co-editor of Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader in the Black Struggle (New York University Press, 200) which won the Gustavus Myers Prize in 2001 and editor of Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (Fordham University Press, 2011). Taylor's book, Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights and the New York City Teachers Union is also published by Columbia University Press (2011).
A Momentous Encounter: Reform Judaism Challenges Orthodoxy in Nineteenth-Century New York
The Enlightenment, the notion that science and reason could lead humankind to a more perfect level of civilization, was always a challenge to traditional Judaism, including the small communities of British and Jeffersonian New York. The major encounter, however, came in the late 1840s when the foremost Orthodox (traditional) and Reform (Jewish Enlightenment) thinkers resided at or near New York. There Reformers began a passionate dialogue that advocated radical changes to Jewish prayer and practice and attacked the Orthodoxy as leading to the eventual demise of Judaism. Their leading spokesmen were Isaac Mayer Wise, a new immigrant from Germany who, though he held a pulpit in Albany, was literary editor of the Jewish weekly, the Asmonean and spent as many days as possible speaking and lobbying in New York, and Max Lilienthal, of Bavaria, who had spent six years in Imperial Russia attempting to establish a modern Jewish shool system prior to coming to America. The Orthodox, with over twenty pulpits, to Reform's one and led by Reverend Morris Raphall of B'nai Jeshurun, the first rabbi to give a congressional benediction and Samuel Isaacs of Shaaray Tefilah, editor of the Orthodox Jewish Messenger, .responded in kind as the two parties argued over theology, the Talmud, ritual observance, and the place of women. For five years New York was the epicenter in the American confrontation between the two denominations of Judaism. This continued through the Civil War in which contrasting outlooks led to contrasting views on slavery and politics.
Howard B. Rock is Professor of History, Emeritus at Florida International University where he taught for thirty-five years. His early writing and research covered early American history, particularly the Revolutionary and Jeffersonian eras in New York City. His most recent work is Haven of Liberty, New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865, the first volume of the trilogy, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York City. (2012, New York University Press) He is the author/editor of six books, most recently, coauthored with Deborah Dash Moore, Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images. Prior to Cityscapes, he developed an ongoing interest in visual history which is reflected in the many illustrations in his earlier books.
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"I'm still ducking Frank," he says. "Owe him $250 from gin rummy."
He counts playboy Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky as a running mate. Oddly enough, Disney's first two marriages fail. "But I'm fortunate," he says. "I have two great sons."
On the job, he strikes gold in the Raiders' locker room with maybe the best collection of talkers ever assembled. He latches onto Lester Hayes.
"Lester was always trying to get those deceased presidents" — dollar bills, he says. "What a character."
Disney says the games do not stand out, only the people who played them.
He marvels at Jerry West's intensity. But when he hears West is jealous of Baylor because Baylor gets introduced before West, he does not question West.
"We weren't gutsy journalists; in those days the mentality was different," he says. "We wouldn't get into the personality stuff."
What would it be like to cover sports today, the message boards often filled with anger?
"No fun," he says. "I look back on my career and it's been all about fun. Sports is supposed to be a diversion, not a passion."
He's lucky, he says. He knows Vin Scully because of his job. Call Disney's phone today and you get Scully's voice. "If anybody ever had a reason to have an ego, it would be Scully," he says. "And I don't see it."
He thinks Tom Lasorda is "the biggest phony" he's ever met before he gets to know him. "This isn't someone who wakes up and puts a mask on," he says. "He lives it; that's why I grew to have great respect for him."
Disney comes from an era when writers and players did everything together, teams handing out Christmas presents to writers. And no one even considering calling the bomb squad.
"Gene Autry would send a box of cashews; I thought that was a little cheap," he says with a laugh. "The Rams gave TVs. And lots of booze."
Drinking was just a part of newspaper life, he says, competing writers covering for each other. Unable to meet a Herald Examiner 6 a.m. deadline while on the road because of too much drink, he says, Times columnist Jim Murray wrote for him under Disney's byline.
"The next day I remember admonishing him for not having the right angle," says Disney.
Disney says he wasn't an alcoholic because he could always find someone else worse off. But he's fooling himself. He loses his job, gets help and stops drinking at age 38. If he doesn't, he says, "I'm dead now."
He gets his job and life back, but later the newspaper is about to fail. He goes to work for Hollywood Park.
People wonder why newspapers and horse racing are dying, no one ever mentioning Disney as the common denominator.
He says it's too late to save horse racing.
But when someone says it's never too late, Disney's actually lived it. Disney has been married for the past 16 years to the girl he dumped in junior high. "The best thing that has happened in my life," he says.
And I thought he had won a Pick Six for $25,000.
He laughs, a good life lived, he says.
But what will he miss?
"There's nothing to miss," he says. "I have the memories."


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